Amino Acid Found to Slow Aging in Mice, Monkeys, and Worms: Breakthrough Research from Harry Perkins Institute and Columbia University

We all get older – that’s an inseparable part of life.

From the age of 18, it is increasingly difficult for the production of new cells to keep up with the loss of old ones, so that your organs slowly weaken.

Researchers are eager to increase our chances in this race against time, so that we can stay healthy longer and perhaps even live years longer.

Now scientists from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Columbia University, among others, may have made an important discovery.

In a publication in Sciencethey describe how the addition of a certain amino acid, which is already naturally present in our bodies and in certain foods, can slow aging in mice, monkeys and worms and even extend the lifespan of middle-aged mice by up to 12 percent .